David Barnes

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Winston S. Churchill - Selected House of Commons Speeches

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to...

musil and 13 more 9 hours 19 minutes UK Parliamentary Speeches

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Epistolary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Letters of Two Brides

Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'Estorade). The women became friends during their education at a convent and upon...

Kara Shallenberg and 5 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection, Book 1

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was...

David Barnes and 5 more 8 hours 51 minutes Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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Thomas à Kempis - Imitation of Christ

The Imitation of Christ is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity. The life of Christ is presented as the highest study possible to a mortal, as Jesus’ teachings far excel all the...

David Barnes 8 hours 42 minutes

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Satire

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Ambrose Bierce - Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's...

Peter Yearsley and 13 more 8 hours 35 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays, First Series

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE....

Linda Leu and 6 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Philosophy

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Leo Tolstoy - What I Believe

«The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the...

David Barnes 7 hours 58 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 008

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Lucy Burgoyne and 15 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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LibriVox volunteers - Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month . The twist is that there are up to 30 people writing together, instead of one toiling alone....

Juho Fröjd and 18 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 004

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

William Coon and 13 more 7 hours 28 minutes

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Short Stories

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Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio

Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a...

Stewart Wills and 20 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love

Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is uncertain, the name «Julian» coming...

David Barnes 7 hours 20 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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